ALL ACTUAL ANSWERS 2026
UPDATE.
Private law - Answer involves disputes between private individuals or groups
Public Law - Answer disputes between private individuals or groups and their government
Civil law - Answer Rights and responsibilities found in relationships between persons and
between persons and their government
Criminal law - Answer Applies to situations in which someone commits an act against the
public as a unit
Constitutional law - Answer General limits and powers of a government as interpreted from
its written constitution.
statuary law - Answer The assortment of rules and regulations put forth by legislatures
model or uniform laws - Answer serve as a basis for some statutory law at the state level
Case law or common law - Answer The collection of legal interpretations made by judges
stare decisis - Answer "Standing by the decision"
Restatements of the Law - Answer Summaries of the common law rules in a particular area of
the law that have been enacted by most states
Administrative law - Answer The collection of rules and decisions made by all these
administrative agencies
Treaty - Answer Binding agreement between two states or international organizations in the
US a treaty must be approved by 2/3 of the senate and generally is negated by the executive
branch
Natural law - Answer Refers to the idea that there are certain ethical laws and principles that
are morally right and above the laws devised by humans
, Legal Positivism - Answer An interpretive guide that urges us, as it's followers, to design our
legal system on the basis of the belief that legitimate political authority deserves our obedience
when it issues a rule
Identification of the vulnerable - Answer The Ill, children, the aged, the disabled, and the
poor, require assistance to meet their fundamental needs of life, health, and education
Historical school - Answer Shaping law based on tradition or custom
Legal Realism - Answer Based on the idea that, when ruling on a case, judges need to
consider more than just the law
Ethics - Answer The study and practice of decisions about what is good or right
Business ethics - Answer The application of ethics to the special problems and opportunities
business people experience
Ethical dilemma - Answer A problem about what a firm should do for which no clear, right
decision is available
Social responsibility of business - Answer The expectations that a community places on the
actions of firms inside that community's borders.
Relevant Stakeholders - Answer Owners or shareholders, employees, customers,
management, the general community where the firm operates, future generations
Universalization test - Answer What the world would be like if everyone copied our decision
trial courts or courts of original jurisdiction - Answer have the power to hear and decide
cases when they first enter the legal system
courts of appellate jurisdiction or appellate courts - Answer Have the power to review
previous judicial decisions to determine weather trial courts erred in their decisions
Question of law - Answer An issue concerning the interpretation or application of a law
question of fact - Answer A question about an event or characteristic of the case